[dharmab]

No, the argument for de minimis is that the cost to collect taxes on a $20 parcel is less than the collected tax.

Granted, the US' $800 de minimis, which was created because of a lack of funding to deal with the volume of shipping, was probably a bad decision in retrospect. But removing it entirely is another extreme.

[sarchertech]

The issue is that when the law was crafted, it wasn’t feasible for foreign companies to directly sell to consumers at scale.

The internet facilitated a direct to consumer model that allows foreign companies to almost completely bypass import taxes.

[dharmab]

The $800 limit was set during the Obama administration, well after internet direct to consumer sales existed.